HPE reveals solution for capitalizing on data created at the edge
HPE announced plans to invest $4 billion in Intelligent Edge technologies over the next four years. It will invest in research and development, working to advance and innovate new products, services, and consumption models across domains such as AI, machine learning, automation, and edge computing. Gartner predicts that by 2022, 75 percent of data produced … continue reading
HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud is now available
HPE announced the release of a new cloud management service at its HPE Discover conference in Las Vegas today. HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud is built on HPE best practices for deploying public and on-premises cloud and designed to help users consume the exact cloud resources necessary. According to the company, it manages relevant workloads by … continue reading
Red Hat releases Process Automation Manager 7 with cloud-native process automation capabilities
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7, the company’s the next generation business process management offering. It is designed for organizations to streamline, automate, measure, and continuously improve their business operations. “Digital transformation can place new demands on both business and IT to deliver greater efficiency and agility throughout … continue reading
Deep learning, containerized apps introduced in Hortonworks Data Platform 3.0
Big data company Hortonworks announced the release of Hortonworks Data Platform 3.0 today during the DataWorks Summit in San Jose. The latest release introduces the containerization of application deployments and productivity enhancements along with other updates to the cloud-based data management and computing platform. HDP 3.0 is based on version 3.1 of the open-source Apache … continue reading
8 surprising facts about Docker adoption
The average lifespan of a container is a mere two days. That was among eight surprising findings revealed in a survey by Datadog, the application monitoring solution provider, and released this week at DockerCon18 in San Francisco. Datadog took a sampling of its customer base, representing more than 10,000 companies and 700 million containers, the … continue reading
ONAP Beijing has been released
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project has announced the availability of its second software release, ONAP Beijing. This release aims to make ONAP deployment easier for network operators. “The Beijing release ushers in the next phase of ONAP,” said Mazin Gilbert, ONAP technical steering committee chair, and vice president of advanced technology at AT&T … continue reading
DockerCon: Building and managing containers
Several companies announced new products and functionality at this week’s DockerCon18 conference in San Francisco. Among the announcements were: Red Hat was talking about the initial public release of its Buildah command-line utility for creating or changing Linux container images. Buildah, according to the company, makes the images easier to integrate into build pipelines. Buildah … continue reading
InfluxData launches new “metrics first” approach to log analysis enhancing observability and enabling faster problem resolution
InfluxData, the modern Open Source Platform built specifically for metrics, events and other time series data that empowers developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics and IoT applications, today at InfluxDays London 2018 released new capabilities targeted at speeding the visualization and analysis of structured application and system events captured via log files. Now by correlating business, server and application metrics … continue reading
MapR expands cloud services with Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s leading data platform for AI and Analytics, today announced that the MapR Data Platform now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS). MapR previously announced persistent storage for containers to enable the deployment of stateful containerized applications. With Amazon EKS, MapR makes it easy for organizations … continue reading
Azure Kubernetes Service now available
Microsoft’s services for managing, deploying and operating Kubernetes is now available. The company first announced Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in October of last year. “We’ve also seen incredible growth in Kubernetes on Azure, with five times the number of customers and ten times the usage of a year ago,” Brendan Burns, engineer for Microsoft Azure, … continue reading
Cisco releases new developer capabilities across its intent-based networking platform
Cisco today announced that it has released new developer capabilities across its intent-based networking platform. These advancements underscore Cisco’s continued progress in delivering an open, programmable platform that spans the entire network, from campus to data center, branch to edge. By providing an open network, Cisco is empowering 500,000 developers, 60,000 partners and three million … continue reading
Operators make the lifecycle management of containers simpler
Last month, Red Hat launched the Operator Framework for managing Kubernetes applications. The original idea of operators was introduced by CoreOS about a year and a half ago, said Reza Shafii, vice president of products at CoreOS, which was recently acquired by Red Hat. CoreOS had been working on the idea of automated operations, starting … continue reading
ITTIA announces new support for industrial IoT and embedded systems
ITTIA has announced support for BlackBerry’s QNX SDP 7.0. QNX SDP is a secure embedded OS developed for safety and mission critical apps. Together, ITTIA hopes to provide users with the ability to collect, store, analyze and connect real-time data on secure devices. According to the company, this will help protect against malfunctions, malware and … continue reading
Microsoft’s Corey Sanders provides more insight into Azure migration
Microsoft has divided the process of moving on-premises workloads and applications to the cloud into three key steps: Assess, migrate and optimize. Once the assessment of existing infrastructure, applications and dependencies is complete, there are four general options for undergoing an application migration to Azure. Those are: re-hosting or lift and shift, refactoring with containers, … continue reading
